Belt-holder.



v PATENTED MAR. 13,1906.

WITNESSES [MT/{T085 r a-eozygffzaw' V I By .Zozzzls' Lani I ATTORNEYSUni- TES,

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GEORGE J. SHAW Ann Louis LONG, F BUCHANAN, NEW Yogi? BELT- omes.

Specification ofLtte'rs Patent.

Patented March 13, 1906.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE SHAW, a citizen of the United States-,andLOUIS LONG,

chanan, in the count State of New York, I new and useful Improvements inBelt -Holders, of which the following is a specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to devices for holding gentlemens belts; and theobject thereof of 'Westchester and is to provide an improved device ofthis class whereby a gentlemans belt will be held in proper positionwith reference to the waistband of a pair of trousers and the belt andwaistband prevented from twisting or folding; and with thisand otherobjects in viewthe invention consists in a device of the class specifiedconstructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate partsof our improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a transverse section of abelt and the waistband of a pair of trousers ,taken on the line as w ofFig. 2 and showing the beltholder; Fig. 2, a view looking in thedirection of the arrow y of Fig. 1 Fig. 3, a front view of thebelt-holder and showing the clamp with which the same is provided thrownback and in position for attachin the belt-holder to the waistband of apair 0' trousers, and Fig. 4 a side view of the device as shown in Fig.3.

In the drawings forming part of this specia fication we have shown at aa part of the waistband of a pair of trousers, below which at 01. isshown a part of the trousers proper, and in the practice of ourinventionv we pro vide a belt-holder comprising a yoke-shaped orU-shaped member I), comprising front and back parts 6 and b and theyoke-shaped or U-shaped member 12 opens upwardly, and the top .end ofthe back .part 1) forms a spring, while the top end of the front part bis formed into a backwardly-directed jaw 6 preferably provided withserrations or teeth b The upper end of the front part b of theyoke-shaped or U-shaped member I) of the holder or that partthereofwhich forms the jaw b is preferably made wider than the frontpart b of said member, and at the base there. of are laterally-directedlugs or projections b ave invented certain to which arepivoted orhinged, as shown at b, a U-shaped clamp-arm c', the free side 0 of Uwhich'is longer than the pivoted side, as a subject of the Kingof-Italy,-res'1ding at Buclearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4 and as indicatedin dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In practice the belt-holder is connected with the waistband of thetrousers by throwing the U-shaped clamp-arm c forwardly intothe'position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and then inserting the waistbandinto said -U-shaped clamp-arm and then folding said clamp-arm backwardlyinto the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, after which the beltd ispassed around the waistband and through the belt-holder.

It will be understood that in practice a number of the belt-holders bare employed,

said belt-holders being located around the waistband of the trouserswherever desired,-

.and instead of placing the holders on the waistband, as hereinbeforedescribed, and then passing the belt therethrough the holders may beplaced on the belt and then connected with the waistband, if desired.

In Figs. 1 and 4 of theaccompanying drawe in s the transverse dimensionsof the beltho der Z) are shown as considerably greater than thethickness of the belt; but it will be understood that the dimensions ofthe beltholder may be regulated in any desired manner.

In folding the U-shaped clamp-arm a backwardly over the waistband of thetrousers, as

shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the longer end thereof operates to compress thewaistband between itself and the jaw b and prevents the beltholder fromvslipping on the waistband, and the dimensions of the belt-holder may beso regulated and the free side or end of the U- shaped clamp-arm'c soformed as to press the ipimg part b of the belt-holder against the e t.

This device is simple in construction. and operation and perfectlyadapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended and is alsocomparatively inexpensive. L

Having fully described our invention, what i we claim as new, and desireto secure by Let ters Patent, is I 1. A belt-holder of the classdescribed, comprising a U-shaped member and a U-shaped clamp, one arm ofwhich is shorter than the other, the shorter arm of the clamp beingpiv-. oted to one end of one side of the U-shaped member, and the longerarm of said clamp being ada ted to fold over the opposite side of the U-aped' member, that side of the U- IIO ' prising a U-shaped member, oneside of which is provided at its upper end with a jaw which extendstransversely of said member and is provided with serrations or teeth,and a U- shaped clamp-arm one side of which is shorter than the other,the shorter side being pivoted I at the base of said 1' aw, and thelonger side of which is adapted to fold over the free end of said jaw,substantially as shown and de 15 scribed.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our invention we have signedour names, in presence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 2d day ofSeptember, 1905.

GEORGE J. SHAW. LOUIS LONG.

Witnesses GEO. D. WHEELER, W. H. CLINTON.

